A French Television show currently airing on France 3, Foot 2 Rue (Street Football in English and Futbol Callejero in Spanish) is based on the book, La Compagnia dei Celestini by Italian author Stefano Benni and adapted by French animator, Steven Roux of French Bulldog Studios. Originally, five seasons were planned, but only the first 3 were released, with the final episode acting as a form of epilogue, though there is a Sequel Series.

The 3 Seasons of this series can currently be found in English on Netflix, under the its alternate name of Street Football.

In addition, a part Sequel Series, part Spiritual SuccessorAll-CGI Cartoon titled "Foot 2 Rue Extreme" (also known as "Extreme Football") began its first Season in 2014. This series sees an almost 100% new cast of characters who work in Teams of 5 that practice a new style of the sport called, well, Extreme Football. Tag, who, along with his once thought Disappeared Dad, now lives with his new blended family, comes to mentor main character and new step-brother Samy and his friends on their Extreme Football endeavors.

Foot 2 Rue provides examples of:

A Father to His Men: Tag. He'll stop at nothing if his team is in danger. When Tag gets down in the dumps, his True Companions all worry about him. He also becomes a literal father after the Season 4 epilogue.

Absurdly Powerful Student Council: Port Marie being the stadium to the Street Football World Cup Shark, the captains of their five top teams hold a fair amount of decision power. Said "council" is composed of Shark, captain of the Port Sharks, Fred, captain of the Boulevard Vampires, Val, captain of the Shopping Mall Barracudas, Laclass, captain of the Vagrants of the Park and Ben, the previous captain of the City Spooks.

Parodied in one episode where Sinead informs everyone that Mochi is going to kiss Eloïse, much to Tag's disgust. Sinead, Sandra, Sonya, Fatou and Victoria already know about Eloïse and Tag's relationship, so they're obviously doing it For the Evulz.

This could be to do with the fact that the Bleus were playing against the Eagles of Jeruselam(The team which Mochi is the captain of.)

And also because Victoria lied about a magazine request for Urban Star.

Then there's Mask who invites Victoria and Sandra to join his team along with Ben and Victor but accoring to Mask himself, they're the kings. If only Tag was spying on him.

Abusive Parents: Averted with Eloise's folks, they love their daughter but they dump her at the Melville whilst they have a party at their house. Cue the sarcasm from Atsuko and Eloise is livid like hell.

It is heavily implied that Jeremy's mother is like this.

Action Girl: Most of the female members of each team. This is one of the reasons why Eloise gets loads of fanboys.

Age Is Relative: None of the characters' ages have been stated. Except Jeremy, Tag and Gabriel. The books (Which take place in Season 2) stated that Jeremy was years old when his parents divorce six years ago making him 13 years old in Season 2 and 3. Gabriel moved to France when he was 8 years old making him 14 years old in Seasons 2 and 3 (He already had his birthday in Season 2). On the other hand, Tag had only been admitted at the Riffler institiute when he was 4 and he wanted a football for Christmas. He was 13 years old in Season 1 but he is 14 in Seasons 2 and 3 (Tag must have celebrated his birthday in between). In Season 4, he might be 15 years old.

Samira was 13 years old in Season 2 as she moved to France when she was 11. Jeremy got her a necklace for her birthday thus making her 14. On the other hand, Eloise looks about 12/13 but she is younger and shorter than Tag and Samira so she could be a year younger them them(She's also shorter than Jeremy, who ironically is shorter than Samira).

We don't know how old Tek and No are but the do look 10 or 11.

Yacine might look like he's still in pre school as Samira did mention in Season 2.

This doesn't change the facts that the fans always list Tag as 13 years old.

The only reason Jeremy and Samira got together because he gave her a foot massage.

Tag thinks Eloise is going through a teenager phase regarding the subject.

Aloof Big Brother: Subverted. Tek and No have four younger siblings whilst Jeremy has one. In one episode Jeremy spend the entire episode ignoring his younger half brother whilst in another episode, Tek dyed his hair blond and ignored No until the end hinting that he could be the aloof brother.

Always Someone Better: Tag and Jeremy's competitive rivalry parodies this with hilarious results. Shark has even said that Jeremy scored the most goals than Tag prompting him to get jealous. if you'd seen the entire Second season, you'd think Jeremy was better than Tag until you realise that Samira scored the winning goal against the Black Devils.

Type A tsundere Samira seems to put up with Jeremy's sarcasm but if the sarcasm was towards her, she would punch his lights out, no comment.

Takeshi and Atsuko, who are Jeremy and Samira's Japanese counterparts (The former wears an earing and has sarcastic tendencies, the latter is a sarcastic tsundere who is quite friendly) quite fit this trope. Although it isn't implied, they might be dating as Samira heard them arguing like a married couple.

It makes sense since Samira is an Otaku and Jeremy cares about her in his own way.

Even though Tag is easygoing, you'll have to think twice before kissing Eloise infront of him. he just won't allow it. He would even give her the silent reatment comparing her to a slut.

And don't call him a liar, either.

If anyone asks Eloise for a paperazzi party let's just say, you'll regret it.

Betty and Veronica: Parodied when Eloise gets into a fight with Atsuko. They're both best friends to Samira despite that Eloise has known Samira more than Atsuko. Poor Samria is given an ultimatum, Atsuko or Eloise. Unfortunatley, she chooses Atsuko so as an act of revenge Eloise rats Atsuko out.

Atsuko could be Betty whilst Eloise could be Veronica(Depends on what the viewer thinks).

Big Eater: Although it isn't mentioned, Eloise is a big eater. Even Samira complains about it when spying on the Malaysian team.

Blonde, Brunette, Redhead: Eloise's cousins, Leah, Helena and Jenny are rumoured be be this trope althoght one of them had Blond hair whilst the other two have light and dark brown hair respectivley.

Bokukko: Parodied in one episode where Samira, Eloise and a friend dress as boys in order to participate in a Jorkyball Tournament.

But then again Tag actually mistook Samira for a boy when she was chosen to be the new 5th member. When she revealed her face, Eloise was more than happy.

Considering the fact that Samira has two older brothers and two younger brothers, she could also be a Bokukko.

In Season 1, this is how Eloise acted before she and Tag settled down.

Book Dumb: Jeremy. Although it helps because he was kicked out of eight different schools.

Despite his looks, Tag is smart than Jeremy but on a competitive level.

There was also an episode the centred on Tag and Jeremy's rivalry.

But Not Too Black: Subverted. Gabriel is the only one of the Bleus de Port Marie who is black. Samira, Yacine and the twins could count due to the fact that they're of North African descent. Since Eloise's ancestry is traced back to Portugal it could be possible that she is Black despite her parents being white. Whilst Jeremy isn't Black at all, Tag's ancestry line goes back in Spain so he could be Hispanic.

The fact that the French Football team have a high number of Black, African, Caribbean and Algerian players in the squad must have something to do with it.

There's no such thing as the one-drop rule in France, especially since black people make up for a tiny share of the population (most of which actually live in the Caribbean sea or in the Indian Ocean, not in Metropolitan France), unlike in the US. To a French eye, most of those characters would look like Arabs. The show would actually be considered by many as too politically correct, as the diversity is taken up to eleven.

Butt Monkey: Eloise. Always a butt monkey, always will be. She has been kidnapped, arrested for something she didn't do, get her name forged, get run over by a bike, gets sand kicked in her eyes during a match. No wonder she also has woobie points.

Samira is supposed to be the new butt monkey as of Season 4 much to her dismay no thanks to Yacine's antics.The fact that Tag and Jeremy will be no help would send Samira off the rails.

Back home in Argentina, the political system was a bit like North Korea's issue and Pablo wanted to do something about it. He didn't want his newborn son (Who later turned out to be Tag) to be born in Argentina where he could get killed. After Pablo's wife gave birth to Tag, she passed away lot long.

To make this short, this trope could be called "Mommy Had A Good reason For Leaving Daddy."

Dating What Daddy Hates:In early mid Season 1, Eloise's dad hated Tag because he was poor,bad tempered and had no parents in contrast to Eloise's blue blood, silver spoon upperclass lifestyle. Eloise didn't date Tag to spite her parents, she dated him because of his charisma.

It is implied that Jeremy's family (Minus his cousin, Johnny) would hate Samira because she's tomboyish. In reverse, Samira's dad would hate Jeremy because of his upbringing but it could be jossed seeing that they both like football.

Idriss is protective of Liraze and will look out for her but he doesn't mind that she and Tek are dating.

Eloise averts this because Pablo approves of Tag's relationship with her.

Dead Guy Junior:Tag's mom was called Eva. If only Foot 2 Rue got its own Fan Fiction.net archive, his daugter would be called Eva. If he did have a son, chances are the kid's name would be Pierre, the hobo who Tag thought was his dad.

Deadpan Snarker: Jeremy tends to do this from time to time. Ever since Season 3, Samira also pulls it off. **Despite being honest, Tag also has a sarcastic nature.

Devil in Plain Sight: Tag was like this when he was a little kid. In his first appearance, Jeremy is viewed as one especially by Tag who gets picky at choosing replacements. In the eyes of the the Riffler-tachi, Victoria is the one who needs to be watch over.

Education Mama: Averted. Even though her mother was't pressuring her, this was probably the reason Atsuko ran away from home.

It could be hinted that Jeremy used to have a mother like that as he was torn between living with his father and his schoolwork.

Considering the fact that she wanted her parents to love her, Eloise pushed herself to do dance but it didn't last long.

Expy: So many expies, it's so hard to choose one unless you could compare Street Football to Galactik Football.

Extreme Doormat: Gabriel. This occures whenever Eloise goes missing. Who does Tag uses as a stand in? That's right, he uses Gab because of his height. Unfortunatly, Gabriel fears going in goal as he is quite clumsy.

Lil Dragon's mom is Chinese. No mention of his father but judging Lil Dragon's skin tone, he could be Latino.

We already know that Eloise's mom is from either Brazil, Portugal or any country in Central America (for example: Puerto Rico). Her dad on the other hand might be either, from Holland, Denmark or Germany for 3 possible reasons. He's taller than his wife and daughter (Both Holland and Denmark) or it's the origin of his surname, Riffler (Germany). Two episodes in Saison 3 stated that he was from new York. Considering the fact that Eloise is rich, it might be stated that she's Jewish.

So ther you have it: One Black computer Genius, two Algerian twins, two Moroccan cousins, one Dutch street entertainer, one Chinese tagalong kid, one Caribbean Alpha Bitch and the European Spanish husband/wife combination. In other words, it's almost like the French football team in real life.

Food Fight: This was probably one of the reasons why Tag didn't sign up for Football Stars in the first place.

Happily Married: Subverted. Even though they are 14 years old, Tag and Eloise seem to act like it. They did kiss at the end of Season 3 (this could count as Tag's first kiss but notEloise's because was kissed by Oscar against her will).

Judging how their relationship levels will increase in Season 4, looks like they're on their way (When Season 4 starts, they will already be 16 ). Eventually, they will marry at the epilogue

Jeremy and Samira also count as well.

Heir to the Dojo: If you seen every Season 3 episode, you'd think Tag would let Jeremy lead the Rifflers to victory and be okay with Lil Dragon taking the post.

Tag was fine with Lil Dragon leading the Rifflers to victory but the only person he thought hat the courage to lead them was Eloise.

High School Sweethearts: In the Italian version, Tag is in Argentina whilst Eloise goes to America (The French Version already has 5 Seasons so yeah) and we might never know wheter they'll remain boyfriend/girlfriend. All I'm trying to say is, Jeremy and Samira are this trope for real.

Jeremy gets jealous if he sees the same type of boys hitting on Samira.

Jerk Jock: Tag sometimes does this. Jeremy did this once as he stopped team from talking to Diego since Tag would befriend them before the big game. Ben was a jerk throughout Season 1 even going so far to get Tag disqualified. Takeshi is also a jerk to Samira and Atsuko. You could see the look on his face in one episode when Samira called him out. Atsuko probably wears a letterman jacket (Commonly worn by jocks) and she and Eloise try to fight for Samira's attention. Poor Samira had no choice but to side with Atsuko putting a strain on her friendship with Eloise.

Karma Houdini: As far as Yacine is concerned, whenever he gets into trouble, Ms Pradet will always put the blame on Samira.

Since Samira mentioned that Yacine was 4 years old, it's bound to happen.

Tag and his gang were ignored one time when Wema mistook them for being late for an important match which was Victoria's doing and Lil Dragon didn't tell anyone about it. Sadly, Tag didn't call out Lil Dragon for being a coward and he didn't call Wema out for the accusation instead leaving that up to Gabriel who felt partially responsible (As Jeremy figured that one out.)

Laser-Guided Karma: Tag was pissed off when Mochi made his move on Eloise. Just as the photographers were about to picture Mochi getting the lip action, Oscar shoved him out the way but he was kissing Eloise instead.

Last Name Basis: For some reason, Tag insists that nobody calls him Sebastien.

His son seems to be one considering the fact that they're both Argentine.

Le Parkour: Tag is a skilled Traceur. He got that skill by hanging out with much older traceurs after his True Companions abandoned him.

Meaningful Name: Tag is usually seen with a spray can. His first name, Sebastien means "Heroic" whilst his surname, Echevarne is Spanish.

Eloise's surname, Riffler is a mechanical term whilst the teamname, the Rifflers mean that the whole ensemble are talented in a differnt form of mechanic, (Gabriel, who's a computer genius, the twins' nickname is a play on words for Techno).

No Periods, Period: it has become a running gag in Season 3 that Eloise has the same moods swings as Tag. One episode showed her snapping at Tag after he whinged that she was going to New York.

This has happened to Samira once or twice but Jeremy usully triggers it.

Occidental Otaku: Although not European, Samira is an Otaku after befriending Atsuko after a run in with Takeshi. The only one of Samira's friends who wasn't that impressed was Eloise, who had a run in with Atsuko. On the other hand, Takeshi and Bunji were complaing about Samira telling Tag about her being an otaku.

One Steve Limit: Two characters are called Ali (One plays for the Scorpions whilst the other plays for the Suns. Two other characters are called Samira (One of them is a member of the Rifflers whilst the other also plays for the Scorpions).

There are also to characters called Tarek but one of them is better known as Tek.

Only Sane Man: Tag, Samira and Eloise have traits of this since Jeremy is impulsive, Gabriel is neurotic and the twins are just twins.

To be fair, Tag and Samira take turns chewing everyone out whist Eloise acts like a mother to everyone

Papa Wolf: The taller males of the Bleus de Port Marie especially Tag.

Parental Abandonment: Subverted and averted. Tag didn't know he had a family until thanks to Victoria, he is reuntied with Pablo, who Tag resembles. Tag's whole nakama were crying.

The Tek No brothers have four younger siblings, this is the reason why they stayed at the Riffler Institute.

After his dad's divorce from his mom when he was seven, Jeremy ran away from home when he was ten. This certainly doesn't help as he was kicked out of 8 different schools.

Gabriel's mom works in Africa whilst his dad works in Asia. In Season 4, he gets accepted to Charlemange High School in Paris meaning he has moved house.

Eloise's folks are workaholics and seem to spend less time with her. In one episode, the asked her wheter she wanted to visit her cousin in America, she said no because the Rifflers had an important match.

Averted with Samira, who lives with her college aged brother. Her parents are harly seen but in an interview she stated that her father was a footballer famous in Morocco back in the 80's.

No mention of Yacine's parents, but he might be in the custody of his older cousin.

Parental Substitute: Tag and Eloise often have to play mom and dad to the Tek No brothers and Lil Dragon. It kinda helps due to the fact that Lil Dragon often looks up to Tag since his father hasn't been mentioned. The twins on the other hand were the first friends that Tag had. Since Eloise is like a mother to them, they seem close to her,too. Note that Eloise has the same voice actress as Lil Dragon.

Jeremy and Samira sometimes do this whenever Tag or Eloise is absent. Jeremy and the twins agree on the same things and they hang out together. He even gave Tek advice about love. Samira is close to them because of their Maghreb heritage (She's Moroccan whilst they're Algerian).

With the sole exception of Tag, the Rifflers do have Red Oni, Blue Oni traits. Tek, Jeremy and Yacine are the Red Oni ensemble due to their compulsive personality and emotional mood swings.On the other hand, Samira, Gabriel and Eloise are the Blue Oni ensemble.

Tag is both the red oni and blue oni but it usually depends on him really.

When Gabriel was in Africa, Ben was there to help much to the ire of Tek, No and Eloise. In Season 2, Tek and No joined the olympic team so Jeremy and Samira passed the audition for the game against the Mega-Killers. Tag sprained his leg due to another one of Victoria's pranks making him to be replaced by Ben, Tag got the flu so he appointed Jeremy as the next captain(A choice that shcoked the Riffler-tachi as the other candidates would be Samira, who's Tag's counterpart and Eloise who owns the team.), Tag got sidelined so Jeremy replaced him and since Tag, Gab and Tek didn't play in the finals, Lil Dragon and his own team took over.

Samira and Eloise are injured throughout Season 4 and they get replaced by Shark and Cartoon. A few episodes later, Eloise recovers but Samira doesn't until Season 5

Rule of Cool:Jeremy agreed on going to China because of the Jackie Chan references which he thought were cool.

Running Gag: Since this show also has comedy elements, allow me to explain

A team that beats the Rifflers in the play offs (For example: the Meninos) will always get beaten in the finals.

Everyone fussing over Tek's problems.

Tag mistaking Eloise's fanboys as a new potential boyfriend (Which has happened each season).

In said spin-off, the younger kids such as Lil Dragon and Ben Webert could team up with Zangezinho's sister, Momo, Tek and No's younger sisters and brother and several of the kids who were babies during Season 2.

It is implied that Fede is a family man and has a wife and child. Or is it Shark or Cartoon?

The whole Riffler team use Eloise as their own V.I.P pass since she's the only one who's upperclass.

Screw the Rules, I Have Money!:Eloise uses this excuse on rare occasions though her parents often use this. Victoria and her father do as they please to get what they want.

To a lesser extent, Tag could be falling into this in Season 4.

Serious Business: it seems like the whole Riffler team have serious business to tend with.

Tag takes his football seriously even going so far to reject dates, days off and very weird training regimes. His relationship with Eloise, searching for the family he never knew had and if you do anything that the team are against, Tag never gets over it.

Jeremy did martial arts in China, brought a daishiki in Senegal and knows his way around a favela in Brazil. Since this is Jeremy we're talking about, he's just a culture freak.

Samira loves anime and manga as well as football. Only Takeshi and Bunji were against this becasue they thought Samira was a mole for Tag.

Tek and No are sports faniatics and furthemore, they would do anything to get to the top teams. Tek in particular means business as he joins Arsenal.

When they were young the twins were interested in other sports as well. Tek was a basketball fanatic but he was short and No was a rugby fan.

It has become a running gag that everyone thinks Eloise takes media and entertainment serious but her parents really think so. Her relationship with Tag has also become serious business.

'Yam Force' is a homage of District 13 but without the drugs. Tag was hanging out with the older kids when Eloise ditched him.

Akira and his True Companions are die-hard Naruto fans. Tag lampshades this by informing his own True Companions that their prefered style of movement is Ninja. Even Takeshi resembles Monkey D Luffy but with Sasuke's haircut. For some reason, there are loads of Naruto references such as one episode where some of the cosplayers wear dressed as Naruto and Bleach characters.

Diego's nickname is Maradona

Ronald's nickname is Cristiano

Eduardo looks like Ronaldo.

Single-Target Sexuality: Tag and Eloise would like to remind you that they have eyes for each other. If you ask Jeremy and Samira the same question, they'll tell you that they have eyes for each other as well.

Tony Lopez hated the Rifflers ever since the replaced him with Eloise. He did get his ownback when he videotaped Ben(Who was disguised as Tag) beating Ali to a pulp. Unfortunatley, the paln backfired.

Victoria has held a grudge against Eloise back in elementary school. From what Eloise had told Tag, Victoria's father owned the elementary school and she was trying to live up to his standards. On the other hand, Eloise was popular with students and teachers alike and she was praised with good grades whilst Victoria wasn't. Since the reunion, Victoria hired one of her friends to run over Eloise with a bike, at a charity game, she got Eloise arrested by stealing the chaity money in her wallet. Victoria thought she got away with it until the final qualifications of the 2nd Street Football World Cup, she kicked the ball at Eloise's chest against a tree. Cue the reaction from Tag, he was pissed and thank god Fede sent her off. Her right hand man, Alex explained to Fede that he'll take over and if the Riffler win, the Black Devils will disband.

Fast forward to Season 3, Victoria has blackmailed the New Zealand team to persuade her to become their captain much to Oscar's dismay. During breakfast, she taunts Eloise after she spilt orange juice on her pants. Once the new rules were introduced, Victoria had no problem locking the Riffler's in their bedroom in the middle of the night and threatning Lil Dragon if he snitched on her. The Rifflers, fully soaked recieved a warning from Fede but unfortunatly, Wema conviced everyone that the Rifflers were not to be trusted, even Lil Dragon sat next to Victoria at lunchtime. In another way to saboatage Eloise, yet again, Victoria forces Fara and Oscar to kidnap and tie her up but Samira and Jeremy found out. Since many of Victoria's saboatage attempts involve Eloise one way or another, I'm going to stop there.

Don't forget about Ms Pradet. For some reason, she hates Samira. The poor kid unfortunatley has to fight Yacine's battles and Ms Pradet will have no problem playing the blame game. Sadly, this means life for Samira will not go according to plan. Since they added Yacine to the cast to replace Gab, the writers have made an episode where Samira finally loses it.

Stage Mom: Subverted. Eloise's mom actually encouraged her to coninue modelling for Urban Star as part of a Miss World competition and to date Mochi. The Riffler's already know that Tag's dating their daughter, so why are they now encouraging Mochi?

The Tek No brothers are another subversion. Their father used to be a famous athelete in Algeria. To be fair, they come from a family of athletes.

Those Two Guys: Genki and Sanji, who are hardly seen with Akira and his True Companions. Also Prenda and Crystal who help Jeremy find a birthday present for Samira, Tek and No who are twins, Vlad and Borris who are part of Moscow's state circus.

The Unfavorite: Jeremy and Samira thought that Tag treated Tek and No better because they were founding members of the Bleus de Port Marie.

Subverted. Even though Tag is friends with everyone in his group, the only one he hangs out with is Eloise, who is his girlfriend.

But than again, Tag has always came to Gab for advice,and has thanked Samira for befriending the Japanese team making Eloise jealous.

It is implied that Tek is the unfavorite twin, Jeremy is the unfavorite brother and Samira suffers from Middle Child Syndrome.

However, Eloise is the favorite grandaughter and Tag is definitley the favorite son.

‘Three Amigos!: Since the twins are moving to London, Gabriel going to Paris and Tag living in the Caribbean, Jeremy, Samira and Eloise look the ensemble in Season 4 with Victoria and Lil Dragon in tow.

There was one example when her parents were going to New York and Tag asked her if she wanted him to take her home, she shrugged it off. Minutes later, Oscar and Fara have her gagged and tied up, something that Victoria forced them to do.

Jeremy also qualifies as he's easily misguided especially in Season 2.

And Eduardo, who drove a police car once to an important game. He got sidelinned because of this and he was late, something that Zangezinho doesn't tolerate.

Trademark Favorite Food: For some reason, the Bleus have a thing for fast food, even going so far to go to the nearest fast food resturant when the Melville's kitchen was full.

Tsundere: Tag is a Type A male version of this. He's a grouch and his favorite passtime in Season 1 was belittling Eloise every chance he got and in Season 3 after finding out that Pablo was his dad, Tag had no problem calling him out much to the shock of Cartoon and Shark who were present.

Samira is a Type B as she's friendly most of the time even to Jeremy. But there was this one time when she was helping No replace Tek, she fell over and Jeremy was laughing his head off. What does Samira do? She puches his lights out. Not to mention she has a tendency to pull his ear.

However, Tek must be going through puberty so he's actually a Type A but get's over emotional.

Eloise for some reason has a tendency to switch from Type A to Type B. She's like an older sister to her own gang but gets irrate over jeremy's childness or Tag's irratable turn offs.

The enitire Japanese team despite their friendly nature.

In one episode, all of them complained to Shark about an allowed goal, when the ball was already broken. In another episode, Atsuko got into a fight with Eloise, who also is a tsundere despite the fact their best friend is Samira, who is a combonation of a type A and B tsundere.

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